The Chinese Classics, Volume 1The author, 1893 - China |
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... things will be transmitted for 10,000 generations . From the highest antiquity there has been no one in awful virtue like Your Majesty . " The emperor was pleased with this flattery , when Shun - yü Yüeh3 , one of the Great Scholars , a ...
... things will be transmitted for 10,000 generations . From the highest antiquity there has been no one in awful virtue like Your Majesty . " The emperor was pleased with this flattery , when Shun - yü Yüeh3 , one of the Great Scholars , a ...
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... things belonging to the Three Dynasties , which are not fit to be models to you . At other times , when the princes were all striving together , they endeavoured to gather the wandering scholars about them ; but now , the empire is in a ...
... things belonging to the Three Dynasties , which are not fit to be models to you . At other times , when the princes were all striving together , they endeavoured to gather the wandering scholars about them ; but now , the empire is in a ...
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... thing to be attended to ' . As in his method , moreover , he reaches from the cultivation of the person to the ... things ; the completion of knowledge ; the sincerity of the thoughts ; the rectifying of the heart ; the cultivation ...
... thing to be attended to ' . As in his method , moreover , he reaches from the cultivation of the person to the ... things ; the completion of knowledge ; the sincerity of the thoughts ; the rectifying of the heart ; the cultivation ...
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... things is too extravagant . ' The Learning for Adults , ' he says , ' at the outset of its lessons , instructs the learner , in regard to all things in the world , to proceed from what know- ledge he has of their principles , and pursue ...
... things is too extravagant . ' The Learning for Adults , ' he says , ' at the outset of its lessons , instructs the learner , in regard to all things in the world , to proceed from what know- ledge he has of their principles , and pursue ...
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... thing , I part with it freely as if I threw it away . " Tsze - sze declined the gift thus offered , and when Tsze ... things into a ditch . Poor as I am , I cannot think of my body as a ditch , and do not presume to accept your gift ...
... thing , I part with it freely as if I threw it away . " Tsze - sze declined the gift thus offered , and when Tsze ... things into a ditch . Poor as I am , I cannot think of my body as a ditch , and do not presume to accept your gift ...
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4th tone according Analects ancient asked Book called ceremonies Ch'an Ch'i Ch'ih Ch'in Ch'iû Ch'û Chăng CHAP chapter character Châu chief China Chinese Ching Chù Chû Hsi Chung Yung Classics Conf Confucius's disciples disciples of Confucius duke dynasty emperor father filial piety follow fucius Heaven Ho Yen Ho-nan Hsî Hsing Hûi Hwan K'ang K'ung king kingdom Learning Măng Master meaning Mencius ment minister native of Lû officer paragraph perfect virtue prince principles reference replied ruler rules of propriety sacrifice sage scholars Shăn Shih Shih-ching Shû-ching Shun sincerity sovereign styled Sung dynasty superior surname tablet things tion translation Tsăng Tsze Tsze-chang Tsze-hsiâ Tsze-kung Tsze-lû Tsze-sze VIII virtuous Wăn words XVII XVIII xxii xxiii younger than Confucius Yüan
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Page 359 - Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States...
Page 109 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 259 - Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors, is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
Page 358 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Page 45 - While there are no stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, or joy, the mind may be said to be in the state of Equilibrium. When those feelings have been stirred, and they act in their due degree, there ensues what may be called the state of Harmony. This Equilibrium is the great root from which grow all the human actings in the world, and this Harmony is the universal path which they all should pursue. Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout...
Page 139 - I daily examine myself on three points:— whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful;— whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere;— whether I may have not mastered and practised the instructions of my teacher.
Page 16 - And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the' end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century before Christ.
Page 209 - There are three principles of conduct which the man of high rank should consider specially important : — that in his deportment and manner he keep from violence and heedlessness ; that in regulating his countenance he keep near to sincerity ; and that in his words and tones he keep far from lowness and impropriety. As to such matters as attending to the sacrificial vessels, there are the proper officers for them.
Page 392 - Common men and -women, however ignorant, may intermeddle with the knowledge of it ; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage does not know. Common men and women, however much below the ordinary standard of character, can carry it into practice ; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage is not able to carry into practice.
Page 48 - The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. On this account, the superior man does not wait till he sees things, to be cautious, nor till he hears things, to be apprehensive. There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.